ReVisioning American History: an
intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx
and Peoples’ civil rights
with
Paul Ortiz, professor of history and director of the Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 and An African American and Latinx History of the United States
with
Paul Ortiz, professor of history and director of the Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 and An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An epic, panoramic account of class struggles in the Western Hemisphere. At center
stage are the Black, and Latinx people who built the ‘new
world’
Spanning more hundreds of years, indigenous peoples history, and the African American and Latinx history of the United States are revolutionary. They are politically charged narratives arguing that the Global South was crucial to the development of America as we know it. They challenge the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and show how placing African American, and Latinx, voices unapologetically front and center transforms
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